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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) is a famous film story of pure heart, testing the bonds of family, friend- and relationships, and showing the importance of understanding the struggles in life. This blog series is a play on that, allowing HFHP members to share what has been eating their mind, body and soul.
In this blog Marinke van Riet or in short MVR reflects on the year 2022 and gives a sneak preview of the year ahead, in her role as HFHP’s Chief Weaver. She hopes for 'moins de blabla' indeed and 'plus d' histoire' or even better more #beautifultrouble.
The plastic-free bag for dried pineapple I picked up in an eco-friendly hotel in Brussels. I took a photo of it as I was struck by the words moins de blabla and plus d'histoire - which in many ways applies to both 2022 and 2023!
The dark cold winter nights offer good moments to reflect on the year behind us and this year is no different. It has been a busy and exciting year for HFHP - in many areas a first. It was the first year for a full Coordination Team that is slowly finding their feet. It was the first year we allocated grants, totaling Euro 1.7 million, to 12 projects involving over 30 organisations active in Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK and Czechia, as well as some at an EU-wide level. The projects are structured according to the key entry points or levers for change: retail, finance and sub-national action, but also according to which outcome they are contributing to in our Tree-ory of Change. This is all done for Linking and Learning purposes to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts and strengthen the movement that way. The learning is one of the three key components of HFHP and after tendering of our Transformational Learning Framework we are very happy with Cristina Temmink and Lisette Gast as the selected consultants! Both have deep experience in transformation change, including with Dutch food collective Lekkernassuh, whose governance model of self-organising we have used as an inspiration for ours.
It was also the first of organising many convenings, where civil society groups had an opportunity to shape HFHP's direction of travel. The key one was the face-to-face Bike of Bees in Berlin, where 25 change-makers developed our North Star, our ways of working (including governance and principles), and the priorities for the Levers of Change. We held online events called B(re)aking Bread where civil society discussed social justice, movement building and the pathway to Plant our Future. These events were organised as next steps of three publications we supported: the European CSO landscape, Recipes for Success and A Pathway to Plant our Future.
There were also many learnings, mainly around the interplay between movement-building and grant-making. This is not an easy recipe to get right and we found that Requests for Proposals are not the best way to go, as they encourage competition rather than collaboration! Instead, we will launch in the first part of 2023 participatory grant making whereby ideas for projects will be organically co-created in the Communities of Practice in The Hive and approved by a Kitchen Table, made up of representatives from three civil society organisations and from three funders.
And talking about the way we want to be structured, we are of course fully aware of the wide spectrum of existing initiatives and want to add value, and not replace the existing energy. Therefore we have opted for a 'movement of movements' approach, embracing a self-organising approach - inspired by holacracy. This means that we will not be campaigning in our own name as HFHP, but rather amplifying existing efforts to weave a beautiful tapestry. We will also not have a Steering Committee or Advisory Board, but welcome a flat approach and see where the opportunities, energies and members will take us. This will happen with the support of the community of four weavers or equivalent title, embedded in national coalitions: Collectif Nourrir in France, Wir Haben Es Satt in Germany, Eating Better in the UK and Transitie Coalitie Voedsel in the Netherlands. Starting in January, they will be strengthening their national coalitions for four days a week, while working with HFHP for one day. It will help build up our cross-country intelligence and movement power from the bottom up!
In short, we are moving but not yet shaking. With your support, it will surely happen next year!
With gratitude for your energy, and sharing your brains, hearts and hands so generously....
Marinke
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